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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

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However, most enterprises are overlooking an existing, in-house bank of computing resources--desktops and otherwise idle computers--which could help reduce the costs and give them more control over their cloud computing. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers. Explain what Kazuhm does?

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Interview with Evan Rifkin, Burstly

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Our main differentiation from what's out there now in the mobile area, is we allow developers to target their audience segment however they want, whether that is by time of day, by campaign, and we also turn control over to application developers, so they can transparently see and target their ads, to a greater degree.

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

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The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. In October of 2007, at some of the first big Facebook events, we saw hundreds of developers working out of their dorm rooms.

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

socalTECH

The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. In October of 2007, at some of the first big Facebook events, we saw hundreds of developers working out of their dorm rooms.